blackwashing

English

Etymology

From blackwash +‎ -ing.

Noun

blackwashing (uncountable)

1. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as belonging to a black race of people.
   • 2008, Celeste-Marie Bernier, African American Visual Arts, page 215:

     If Pindell opposes the 'whitewashing' of history, then Walker's is a revisionist blackwashing.

   • 2013, Jonathan Scott Holloway, Jim Crow Wisdom, page 118:

     This “blackwashing,” in Hare's opinion, was the work of black studies departments and the black faculty […]

2. The application of a coating of blackwash.
   • 1852, Frederick Overman, The Moulder's and Founder's Pocket Guide, page 120:

     The blackwashing is here to be the very last operation, and to be well performed, and when dry must be polished by a large sleeker fitting the circle of the cylinder.

3. (derogatory) The revisionist portrayal of something as evil.
   • 2007, Robert Stam, Ella Shohat, Flagging Patriotism: Crises of Narcissism and Anti-Americanism, →ISBN, page 12:

     Historical writing proliferates in examples of tendentious accounts of national history, where the “whitewashing” of one history goes hand in hand with the “blackwashing” of another.

Antonyms

• whitewashing

Verb

blackwashing

1. present participle and gerund of blackwash